What is netElastic’s CGNAT?
With the sudden rapid growth of Work from Home, Remote Education, and Telemedicine, demand for scarce IPv4 addresses has exploded, but the dwindling unowned addresses are often very expensive and frequently polluted as they were once used by spammers or other blacklisted entities. And because there are so many IPv4-only speaking CPE and websites, a wholesale move to IPv6 is not yet practical.
A CGNAT router is an inexpensive way to share IPv4 addresses a Broadband Service Provider already has. Based upon well known Network Address Translation (NAT) techniques, the netElastic CGNAT router amplifies your available network address space, provides critical logging capabilities, and has all the gateway services that differentiate CGNAT from vanilla NAT.
Features and Benefits
NAT44 / 444
- Extend IPv4 addressing capacity
- Works with NAT CPE (444)
Carrier Grade
- Dependable line-rate speeds even with QoS, ACLs, and small packets
- Application Layer Gateway support
- Endpoint independent mapping / filtering
- Supports multiple High Availability modes
Virtual
- Runs on cost effective appliances
- Easy to install and configure
- Easy to upgrade
- Inexpensive sparing
Robust logging
- Support local or offline (Syslog) NAT logging for CALEA or other purposes
x86 Architecture
- Best I/O performance in a CPU core—Up to 160Gbps throughput per instance
- Install on a multi-core Xeon server
- Grow by adding NIC cards and/or memory
4M Sessions
- Support tens of thousands of subscribers per instance (CPU Socket or VM)
- Add sockets, VMs, or servers to scale out
- Extend your IPv4 resource pool
